Scientific Affairs Manager, PRIME Education
Everyday Health Group (EHG) is a recognized leader in patient and provider education and services attracting an engaged audience of over 60 million health consumers and over 890,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians. Our mission is to drive better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant information, data, and analytics. We empower healthcare providers, consumers and payers with trusted content and services delivered through Everyday Health Group’s world-class brands.
The Opportunity
PRIME Education, a property of Everyday Health Group, is looking for a Scientific Affairs Manager, who will use their combined skills as a scientific/medical writer, educational design innovator, and grant development specialist to conduct a turnkey process that includes high quality educational grant development, followed by educational content and survey design for awarded grants. You will engage investigative and analytical skills to identify and establish ongoing opportunities for grant development to achieve the company’s goals. You will conduct literature reviews of clinical trials, peer-reviewed articles, clinical guidelines, and other medical/scientific data sources to develop needs assessments, grant proposals, accurate educational materials, and compelling educational designs, including program titles, learning objectives, agendas, and formats aligned with identified gaps within the disease area and the unique needs of the target audience. Upon grant award, you will lead or assist other members of the Scientific Affairs Team with educational planning and development of the program. The Scientific Affairs Manager also develops abstracts, posters, and/or slides for presentation at leading medical meetings, along with journal articles for peer-reviewed publications to scale the impact of the company’s educational and research initiatives.
The Scientific Affairs Manager is a self-starter with scientific and/or clinical expertise and ability proactively seek and effectively apply guidance and feedback from internal and external stakeholders to develop accurate, on-time, evidence-based, and high-quality materials aligned with the company’s goals. In this role, the Scientific Affairs Manager collaborates with other colleagues, departments and stakeholders as part of the company’s commitment to flawless execution of its grants, educational products, and services. The Scientific Affairs Manager reports to the Director, Scientific Affairs and is responsible to liaise collaboratively with team members across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop high-caliber medical and scientific grants and content with the highest standards of editorial excellence and scientific accuracy, leveraging scientific/medical expertise and adhering to adult learning principles and interprofessional education
• Research and recommend potential expert faculty to lead educational programs, conduct planning calls with the faculty to design high-impact educational programs, and guide faculty through dry runs and video recordings
• Contribute to grant planning and development, encompassing needs assessments, educational designs, formats, and execution plans, to meet department goals and address unmet educational and research needs and assist in strategic planning for future activities
• Support productive relationships among key leaders in health care, among various practice settings, in order to collect expert opinion and insights into educational program needs and grant development opportunities
• Support outcomes measurement of high-impact educational programs, including measurement planning, survey instrument development, program analyses, and communication of outcomes findings with external stakeholders
• Develop and contribute to scientific articles, abstracts, and outcomes-based presentations and publications to exemplify the services and products of the company
• Communicate effectively to ensure workflow is smooth and carry out opportunities, needs, ideas, and timelines to meet the company’s and department’s goals for continued growth and success
• Proactively identify and resolve issues pertaining to instructional design components in the development of education and research initiatives, with recommendations provided to the Director, Scientific Affairs in a timely manner
• Participate in regularly scheduled meetings of the Scientific Affairs Department, including weekly team meetings, as well as grant and content planning meetings
• Perform other duties as assigned
Job Qualifications
• Minimal Master’s degree (PhD or PharmD degree preferred) in a scientific, medical, or related field commensurate with the scope of work identified in this job description and current knowledge of the healthcare industry
• Demonstrated experience in writing scientific or medical grant proposals
• Ability to work independently and autonomously, and multi-task multiple responsibilities and projects with accuracy and efficiency, meeting prescribed deadlines
• Ability to research, design, and develop high-quality scientific grant and medical writing, with appropriate guidance
• Ability to complete literature review and review/analyze scientific/medical research in order to apply accurate concepts to educational development, with appropriate guidance
• Analytical and didactic ability to complete medical writing in accordance with AMA criteria and grant development procedures
• Ability to organize and convey educational designs and deliverables efficiently, fluently, and accurately
• Proficiency in analytical thinking and an ability to convey complex data results in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to gather data from verifiable sources for grant development
• Scientific and/or clinical expertise in any of the following disease areas: oncology, diabetes, endocrinology, neurology, rheumatology, cardiology, ophthalmology, dermatology, respiratory, pain management, mental health, women’s health, gastroenterology, hepatology, infectious diseases, or immune mediated inflammatory diseases
• Excellent English language skills, both written and verbal
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and reference manager applications
About PRIME Education
PRIME is a leading research and medical education company with a mission of advancing the science of learning and behavior change among providers, patients, payers, and health ecosystems to improve competency, performance, and quality health outcomes. The scalable and sustainable research and education that PRIME delivers has measurably improved patient care for the last 29 years. Link to PRIME’s corporate website: https://primece.com/. Link to PRIME’s learner portal with some of our active programs: https://primeinc.org/.
Our Culture and Values
We love collaboration, always desire to understand the business problem we’re solving, push decisions down as low as possible, and want to further our culture of innovation and experimentation. We created our values together, to embody both our audience goals and our workplace aspirations: to promote diversity and create opportunities; to be authentic; to enable wellness; to ignite passion and reimagine possibilities; to be results driven with a bias toward action; and to inspire connectedness.
About Everyday Health
At Everyday Health Group, a division of Ziff Davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global community. We believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employees. We seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work.
Everyday Health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust health and wellness focused benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits; Flexible Spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Pregnancy and Parental leave, Family Planning Support via Maven, Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, Fitness Reimbursement as well as employee-focused engagement and education programs, including Employee Resource Groups and company-sponsored events. If you’re seeking a dynamic work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance, then Everyday Health is the place for you. Everyday Health Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees.